NCT07318220

Prehabilitation Protocol for Head and Neck Cancer Patients

Optimizing Cancer Support Services Usage in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer During the Prehabilitation Period

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Miami · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research is to help researchers understand the barriers, supports, and preferences for prehabilitation. Prehabilitation in this study means head and neck cancer patients will receive nutritional counseling sessions and attend exercise programs before and during radiotherapy/chemoradiotherapy treatment.

Conditions

• Head and Neck Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Referral to Oncology Nutritional Counseling and Exercise Program	Participants will be referred by their healthcare provider to an oncology nutritional counseling and exercise program administered standard of care by the Cancer Support Service at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Participants will be scheduled to the predetermined frequency and length of visits with oncology dietitians and exercise physiologists per the prehabilitation prescription protocol developed during the pre-implementation period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-04-30
• Primary completion: 2027-04-30
• Completion: 2027-04-30
• First posted: 2026-01-05
• Last updated: 2026-01-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States